[Yum] [PATCH] Adds an excludedocs option

[Michael Jennings]

On Monday, 10 May 2004, at 21:41:47 (-0400),
seth vidal wrote:

> right b/c coming up with a whole new semantic will decrease
> confusion to users? :)

That depends on the semantic. :-)

> to a certain extent, but it might not always be that way - and I'm
> not sure I want to design in that direction.

Fair enough.

> That's my point - why should I add a whole parser for these options
> into yum when I can just tell people - if this rpmrc file is present
> yum will use the options set here - then I don't do anything at all
> except read include the macros/rc file.

I would think a normal user would find something closer to rpm options
more digestable than the macros/rc files which are considered by most
to be akin to a black box.  Then again, sufficient documentation
covers over a multitude of sins. ;-)

Michael

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